I want to help people not have to suffer in the way I did: A Dietitian's Journey from Restrictive Dieting to Intuitive Eating
As we learn and grow, we also begin to recognize the inadequacies of what we once believed. For healthcare professionals, this realization comes with the added weight of knowing that our past lack of ...
6 Mar 202556min
Using harm reduction to treat suicidality and high-risk behaviors
Eating disorders can be deadly. They have some of the highest mortality rates among mental illnesses, both as a direct result of medical complications and the increased risk of suicide. Because of thi...
3 Mar 20251h 12min
Does food choice affect health and well-being?
Does food choice affect mood, energy level, and quality of life? Are some foods healthier than others? Do whole foods, processed foods, and ultra-processed foods impact the body differently? What cons...
20 Feb 20251h 11min
Dissociative Identity Disorder is more common than we were taught
Dissociative identity disorder (DID) is a condition in which an individual's personality fractures in response to extreme trauma. It is often portrayed in its most extreme and obvious iterations and i...
13 Feb 20251h 4min
Not all meal plan non-compliance signals treatment resistance: Accommodating autism in eating disorder treatment
In eating disorder treatment settings, meal plan compliance is often used as the objective measure of safety and recovery, which then determines readiness to step down to lower levels of care. It foll...
6 Feb 202551min
What I wish weight loss providers understood: An ex-dietician's journey from a diet to anti-diet approach to wellness
Traditional medical and dietetic rhetoric around the relationship between food, weight, and health emphasizes correlations between BMI range and medical conditions. However, it often fails to consider...
30 Jan 202546min
Introduction to EDeology
In this episode, I explain what this podcast is, why I created it, and how future episodes will be structured. The eating disorder professional world has become so politically and ideologically charg...
7 Jan 202518min
